fall back
英 [fɔːl bæk]
美 [fɔːl bæk]
略微退后; 稍稍后退; （军队）撤退，后撤
英英释义
verb
- go back to bad behavior
- Those who recidivate are often minor criminals
- retreat
- move back and away from
- The enemy fell back
- hang (back) or fall (behind) in movement, progress, development, etc.
- fall backwards and down
- have recourse to
- The government resorted to rationing meat
双语例句
- She's completely homeless-at least I have my parents to fall back on.
她是真得无家可归-至少我还有父母可依靠。 - It is these things where we should fall back on expert judgment and more experienced people.
在这些事情上，我们应该听从专家和更有经验的人的判断。 - I don't even have that to fall back on.
我连这个也不能依靠了。 - He has his rich parents to fall back on.
他可以依靠他有钱的父母。 - They forced the enemy to fall back.
他们迫使敌人后退。 - If wages rise quickly enough, some of these ratios will fall back to more comfortable levels.
如果工资上升得足够快，这些比率中有一些将回落至更加令人舒适的水平。 - Our attack was so vigorous that the enemy had to fall back to the river bank.
我方的进攻很猛烈，敌人只好退至河岸。 - It's good to have a friend to fall back upon.
有朋友可以依靠是好的。 - It's good to have a friend to fall back on.
有个朋友可依靠是好事。 - If these new methods don't work, we'll have to fall back on our old system.
如果这些新方法不奏效，我们不得不依靠我们的旧系统了。